1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 55: ‘Hold on to that egg, guv’nor,’ Rooster said in the direction of a rookie receiver. ‘’Cause you can’t score without that apple’.at apple, n.1
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 305: Hanneman shot a bird at the fans, some of whom were trying to get one of us [...] to come over the fence and fight.at shoot a/the bird (v.) under bird, n.2
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 263: A part of the body that attracts considerable private speculation, but hardly any public, is the old boy.at old boy, n.
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 178: ‘We got some wine ahead of time and brown-bagged it down there’.at brownbag, v.
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 107: In the last exhibition game [...] a guy complained, said I hit him a cheap shot. I said ‘You motherfucker, you’re not that good, that I have to cheap-shot you’.at cheap shot, n.
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 10: ‘Somebody you slap in the face and he don’t do anything. That’s the definition of a chump’.at chump, n.
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 37: [A]lthough he was built much too well to be considered fat by civilian [i.e. non-pro footballers] standards, he had a great tendency to put weight on.at civilian, n.
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 131: [T]he announcer was going down the Steeler roster, cutting up each guy.at cut up, v.1
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 73: Ron Bell, the rookie, he’s supposed to be an intellectual, I dusted him [i.e. at chess] six times in a row.at dust, v.1
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 55: ‘Hold on to that egg, guv’nor,’ Rooster said in the direction of a rookie receiver. ‘’Cause you can’t score without that apple’.at egg, n.1
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 111: Today they say the guy musta been nuts. ‘Hey man, funky dude.’ Look at you like you’re a weirdo if you do things like that.at funky, adj.3
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 55: ‘Hold on to that egg, guv’nor,’ Rooster said in the direction of a rookie receiver. ‘’Cause you can’t score without that apple’.at governor, n.
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 132: ‘That New York game, I was ready to hang it up in pregame warm-ups. You get those feelings, people don’t realize’.at hang it up, v.
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 8: In Pittsburgh they call a brawl a ‘hey-rube’.at hey rube, n.
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 36: [I]n ‘73, at least on offense, no Steeler ever became the Man.at man, n.
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 5: The Steelers and the people around them were [...] held firmly but hazardously together by the goal of winning all the marbles.at marbles, n.4
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 113: When a batter hits a baseball on the nose he says, ‘I got it all’ .at on the nose under nose, n.
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 17: You don’t have to drink too many shots and beers [...] before you begin to feel the frustrations perking all around you.at percolate, v.
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 40: If any element of the Steelers was flatulent, it was the offense. So you wouldn’t want to call the Front Four the Poot Troops.at poot, n.2
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 205: ‘The tradition here was always Jock Sutherland rock ‘em sock ‘em miner football,’ said Artie Rooney.at rock-em-sock-em (adj.) under rock, v.1
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 116: ‘One of the things I think you have to do in coaching is not screw up people you’re working with’.at screw up, v.
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 119: Ben Davidson hit a quarterback once—I was in there ahead of him and I had already come to a stop, the ball was thrown, and Ben ran past me and smeared the guy.at smear, v.
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 61: ‘I’m not blowing smoke. Everybody on this team is convinced we’ll win the Super Bowl’.at blow smoke up someone’s ass (v.) under smoke, n.
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 271: ‘If I get to play too, I’m liable to snap out. Be too happy.’.at snap out (v.) under snap, v.
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 186: Baldy, a chunky bald Harp [...] , still operates on the North Side, and gives soul shakes and calls people ‘Brother’.at soul shake (n.) under soul, adj.1
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 26: (‘Stink out the place,’ or ‘. . . the joint,’ or ‘. . . the house,’ is a player’s common expression for doing badly, as in ‘My hands stunk out the joint tonight’).at stink, v.
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 71: ‘That Red Man,’ [i.e. chewing tobacco] said Hanneman. ‘That’s just like candy. Baseball players chew that. Baseball is a titty-pulling sport.’.at titty-sucking (adj.) under titty, n.
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 231: All through the trip the three of us smoked excellent cigars the size of Joe Greene’s fingers [...] The Chief called these cigars ‘Tobies.’.at toby, n.5
1974 R. Blount Jr About Three Bricks Shy of a Load 113: ‘Unload’ and ‘ sell out’ are players’ term[s] for what you do when you put all of yourself into another body.at unload, v.